Architecting HP Server Solutions

Special notes

1. HP ExpertOne Certification course SABA ID for this course: 00433808
2. This course prepares you for HP ExpertOne HP ASE - Server Solutions Architect V8 track
3. HP ExpertOne Exam= HP0-S36 Architecting HP Server Solutions

Course overview

The Planning and Design of HP Server Solutions course delivers the technical presales knowledge and skills necessary to prepare learners to consult with customers regarding HP commercial and enterprise-class products and solutions. This course is designed for account-aligned presales technical specialists who design and justify HP cross-portfolio solutions to customers. Learners attending this course will gain knowledge of business requirements, products, concepts, technologies, and solutions within a customer sales engagement.

Prerequisites

• HP0-D13 - Technical Introduction to the HP Enterprise

Audience

• Presales, both internal HP and external

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Course objectives

Upon its completion, you should be able to:

• Describe the HP Converged Infrastructure and its benefits as an IT strategy
• Explain the characteristics to consider when choosing an HP server
• Describe industry-standard architecture used in the ProLiant product family
• Describe industry-standard architecture used in the HP Integrity product family
• Explain how ProLiant and Integrity servers arecategorized
• Describe the HP approach to virtualization
• Describe the range of partitioning technologies offered by HP
• Identify the products in the HP BladeSystem portfolio
• Identify ProLiant Blade Workstation Solutions
• Describe the BladeSystem storage and expansion product portfolio
• Describe and position Integrity NonStop BladeSystem solutions
• Describe and position the HP CloudSystem Matrix
• Explain how to select an HP BladeSystem enclosure
• Identify and describe the BladeSystem enclosures
• Describe the BladeSystem enclosure management hardware and software
• Describe the power architecture used in BladeSystem enclosures
• Explain how to balance power and cooling in BladeSystem enclosures
• Identify the HP Network switches and differentiate among them
• Compare direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage(NAS), and storage area network (SAN) products and their market positions
• Name the tools available from HP for selecting solution components

Course outline

Module 1: Solution Planning and Design

• Gather and analyze business requirements and existing infrastructure data.
• Perform a site inventory and audit the existing IT infrastructure as needed
• Determine Business Information management requirements
• Design, size, and validate the solution
• Select the appropriate hardware
• Determine the physical and environmental requirements needed
• Use appropriate tools to size a given situation
• Validate that the solution is technically viable
• Select the appropriate HP Services
• Determine the management solution
• Design Business Information Management solution
• Create an implementation plan
• Create the scope of work document
• Document the solution and implementation tasks and responsibilities

Module 2: HP Servers

• Objectives
• Compare the features and models of the ProLiant ML/DL/SL offerings
• HP BladeSystem portfolio
• HP CloudSystem Matrix
• Learning check

Module 3: ProLiant Storage Options

• Differentiate among DAS, SAN, and NAS technologies
• Drive enclosures (D2000, MDS600, DS2120)
• Storage blades
• Tape drives and tape blades
• HP Storage IO Accelerator
• Install or attach external Fibre Channel-SAN shared storage and Virtual Connect options

Module 4: I/O Connectivity Options

• Ethernet connectivity
• Fibre Channel connectivity
• InfiniBand connectivity
• SAS connectivity
• iSCSI connectivity
• Converged connectivity (CNAs)
• PCI expansion (HP BladeSystem PCI Expansion Blade, PCI riser)
• USB, SD, and microSD options (e.g. optical drives)

Module 5: Insight Management Software

• HP Insight Control
• HP Matrix Operating Environment
• Install appropriate HP Service Pack for ProLiant
• Configure System Management Homepage (SMH)

Module 6: Insight Control Server Deployment

• Configure and use Insight Control server deployment functionality
• Pre-configure and install or update ProLiant/Integrity Support Pack (Service Pack for ProLiant)
• HP OEM license and entitlement activation (Microsoft, VMware etc.)

Module 7: High-Availability Clusters and Disaster Recovery Solution

• Objectives
• Install and configure clustering software solutions (Microsoft, Serviceguard, VMware)
• Learning check

Module 8: Performance Planning and Bottleneck Detection

• Objectives
• Use the appropriate tools to determine whether performance is optimal
• Library Tape Tools (LTT)
• Identify network bottlenecks
• Tune network subsystem performance
• Identify and resolve processor bottlenecks
• Identify and resolve system bus bottlenecks
• Identify and resolve storage bottlenecks
• Identify and resolve memory bottlenecks
• Identify and resolve operating system configuration issues
• Identify and resolve application bottlenecks
• Ensure current performance state meets requirements
• Identify and resolve virtualization bottlenecks
• Document steps taken to resolve bottlenecks
• Set performance thresholds
• Check for known performance issues
• Re-establish new baseline